Round Rock couple waited nearly 7 months to get their hail-damaged truck back from Austin body shop 

Look at the new WRX. The plastic wheel well cladding has little dimples in it for better aerodynamics

And that was back in 2010, probably more now.

Right in Midwest so many people park outside their own 1 or 2 car garage. My cars live in there when at home even for 5 minutes all the time. Cannot believe the stuff people prioritize the garage too.

what do you mean wait out? wait for a better price? cheaper isnt always better

@@thepotatoofheaven its cheaper because they don’t have any work during off season.

Pro tip , go to a pdr guy and he will do it for half the cost 😂

@@cormaro13 depends on the season. I contacted multiple PDR guys 2 weeks after the hail, and they all quoted me $4-5k. Then around dec-Jan, they dropped the price to $2k

@@cormaro13agreed. Learned that the hard way. When mass hail storms strike, you call up your insurance company immediately because you know everyone else in town needs their car fixed too. But because of this, they do mass assessments, schedule a time weeks out, typically at collision center, give you an estimate approval, tell you that you can take it anywhere, and THEN you start calling around. But by then, it’s too late. The closest 20 companies put you on their wait list, and it’s 3 months out. Last year, we got hit after driving out to dinner on a beautiful day. Very next morning, I drive to a paintless dent repair guy for an estimate. I told him to put me on the list. Because I did not wait for insurance, the wait was only 2 weeks. A few days before he was ready for me, the insurance company finally had me come in for a mass assessment. I can only imagine what the wait would’ve been like then after. Guy keeps it for a day, then let’s me take it home. He says he needs insurance to approve something else. He then tells me that this is pretty normal for hail, and typically collision centers will just park your car for a week or two until they can get that approval! A week goes by, and we bring the car back. He keeps it for two days, and then it’s done. So less than two weeks, or three days, if you consider the fact that I got to keep my car during the waiting process! At Caliber Collisions, I had to wait 3 months, because all their chains had wait lists that long. I had to drive an hour to and and hour from since that was the location that was ready for me. They kept the car for several months, and there was constant miscommunication on the car being ready, which meant multiple trips hoping to get the car back. And at the end of the day, I had to bring it to another Caliber location because modern cars require special computer tools to let the car know that thing you unplugged was plugged back in. I actually asked the paintless dent repair guy this, because I was worried, and he said he had experience with this type of situation, and actually does his best to NOT unplug anything, if he can avoid it.

Yeah living in TX with all the hail, and wild animals we can hit, cosmetics is whatever.

@@TexasVexeswhat? It’s not that bad at all lol

Thats called insurance fraud. And you probably shouldn't brag about it. And then also your rates would go up accordingly

@@macbook802 I've had the insurance company tell me they can write me a check for it and it was my choice if I decided to repair it or not.

@@macbook802not necessarily. You can take a check from some insurance companies and they’ll let you deal with getting your vehicle repaired. Insurance typically (in my experience) has worked with us but there’s the few odd times where the customer has insurance do a damage estimate & collect a check to take it to another shop and pocket the rest of the money or pay the vehicle off.

Makes a lot of sense

I have pallets

I would have too but they didn't predict hail with that stirm

Maybe if you have a truck and plan on having it outside any time during the spring. Our last hail storm that got our car (so no bed) we were dropping off a rental. It was a nice day, and we wanted to drop it off so when they opened in the morning we wouldn’t get charged for another day. Since it was still nice out, we decided to eat dinner at a local restaurant. That’s when things got super dark, and hail as big as my shoe started falling!!! Miraculously neither our car, nor the rental was totaled, but we were stuck with both claims. Went home, and there was still hail in the yard the size of my fist even an hour later! Can’t predict stuff like that. Front didn’t even come the normal direction.

@@UmmYeahOk yes we had hail out here but nothing close to severe, we have trees to fear coming down on everything, at separate times they came down on our cars my rental at the time cost me $5000 out of pocket and a young fawn smash the headlight, fender and hood from jumping ontop not having the brains yet to walk around it and then the wild turkeys and bears t-bone my own jeep because it's just a patriot causing damage which insurance coverage took care of that life is not over until it's over stay alive and try to survive out there

Nobody wants a hail-dimpled car though

To tall or long possibly

Why does it matter is it really any of your business.

It shows it and they mention the name of the company several time in the video…. Hailspecialist…. Use your eyes and ears

@@Tearflavoredcereal Yeah we learned the name of the body shop but they never identified the slow-paying insurance company which is a huge part of the story. I wish you all the best in your struggle with reading comprehension.

Because Chevy. Like a Rock lol

Right

Why is that?

Not to mention send it to paint before the new hood arrives at the shop.

Absolutely

Cause that’s going to do much 😂